John Francis Burke (February 8, 1923 – August 4, 2006) was a Canadian dentist and politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton South in the

Nova Scotia House of Assembly The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (french: Assemblée législative de la Nouvelle-Écosse; gd, Taigh Seanaidh Alba Nuadh), or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia of the province of Nova Scotia ...

from 1970 to 1974. He was a member of the

Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia The Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia (formerly Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia), is a moderate political party in Nova Scotia, Canada. Like most conservative parties in Atlantic Canada, it has been historically as ...

. Burke was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was educated at

St. Francis Xavier University St. Francis Xavier University is a public undergraduate liberal arts university located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a member of the Maple League, a group of primarily undergraduate universities in Eastern Canada. History St. Franc ...

and Dalhousie University, earning his D.D.S. degree at the latter in 1947. He was married to Theresa Carmelita MacLean. She died in 2003. He died at Cape Breton Regional Hospital on August 4, 2006.Obituary
in the Cape Breton Post, August 7, 2006

References

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